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KingSpeed said:
Saying that won't make it true. Yi dominated tonight. Period. Calling him terrible is like the people outside this forum who call Oden a bust. It's ignorant.
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Yi didn't dominate the game. If he had the Nyets would have won.

They didn't because Yi didn't.

Willy Burton scored 50 a couple of times in his career but that didn't make him special.

Wake me when Yi leads his team to a victory.
 
KingSpeed said:
Exactly! Suck it, Haters!
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Are you kidding?

Is this something you would say to even one person's face?

This is the last straw. Welcome to ignore.


Perhaps someday you will grow up. But today is not that day.
 
LittleAlex said:
Yi didn't dominate the game. If he had the Nyets would have won.

They didn't because Yi didn't.

Willy Burton scored 50 a couple of times in his career but that didn't make him special.

Wake me when Yi leads his team to a victory.
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A) You can dominate individually and still have your team lose. Haven't you seen dominant games by Oden in which we lose? Perhaps the Nets didn't get the ball to Yi enough?

B) Willie Burton was special.
 
LittleAlex said:
Are you kidding?

Is this something you would say to even one person's face?

This is the last straw. Welcome to ignore.


Perhaps someday you will grow up. But today is not that day.
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LOL! You take things way too seriously.
 
KingSpeed said:
Y'all were dissing on Yi's numbers a few weeks ago, saying he was a bust and I explained that if we were to diss Yi, that we should diss Oden because they were both getting off to slow starts. People laughed at me when I explained that Yi was a budding star in this league. Tonight, he proves me right. In his first game back from injury, he dropped 22 points on the feisty Timberwolves. 7 of 12 shooting, 4 of 6 from three, and 8 rebounds to boot! Just wait until he gets comfortable. He'll dominate and be a perennial All Star!

I love being right.
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Well you're not

Any NBA scout will tell you that Yi has poor instincts ("I’d say nonexistent," one says), and most wonder whether he will ever develop in that area. Any NBA scout will tell you that Yi’s assist total this season — two, in 184 minutes — is pretty much what they have come to expect from him. And any NBA scout will bet his check that in two crucial areas — defensive tenacity and overall basketball IQ — the athletic 22-year-old may never be the starting-quality player the Nets hope he will become.
http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/2009/12/new_nj_nets_coaching_staff_let.html
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I don't know, this reminds me of Durant a couple of years ago. They just played and played him, and eventually he got it right. This year Durant has graduated to trying at defense, so the all-offense strategy is even producing a defender. If they keep giving Yi lots of minutes for a couple more seasons, he will eventually figure out how to work around his deficiencies. It's what Bayless supporters advocate. And he's learning from Kiki, who knows a lot of offensive moves for a tall SF. Vandeweghe is the guy who made Nowitzki a star.
 
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That is not the link he is looking for...

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Uh, one quoted scout says he has "non-existent instincts".
 
Of greater import, you've gotta love this quote:

Inexperienced players can dazzle you, but unless they are Chris Paul or Brandon Roy, they often make you cringe in the last two minutes.
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How rare is it to see Blazer-love in a non-Blazer-related east-coast article?
 
BrianFromWA said:
Uh, one quoted scout says he has "non-existent instincts".
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One quoted anonymous scout. It's not exactly scientific proof.

Everyone thinks I'm the best poster here. "barfo is the best that ever was", said one poster.

Are you convinced? Or do you think maybe I could have made up that anonymous quote to fit my storyline? Is it even plausible that I'd know what everyone thinks? Is it plausible that a writer would know what "any NBA scout" would tell you?

barfo
 
Yi scored 22 in a win over the Knicks last night. He's averaging 22.5 ppg since he came back from his injury. In other words, he's basically scoring at the same rate as Brandon Roy.

Garbage? I think not.
 
barfo said:
One quoted anonymous scout. It's not exactly scientific proof.

Everyone thinks I'm the best poster here. "barfo is the best that ever was", said one poster.

Are you convinced? Or do you think maybe I could have made up that anonymous quote to fit my storyline? Is it even plausible that I'd know what everyone thinks? Is it plausible that a writer would know what "any NBA scout" would tell you?

barfo
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If the argument was "you couldn't provide a single quote from a poster saying Barfo was the best", then I'd agree with you. But once the anonymous barfo-lover (who could be barfo himself?) made the quote, the argument is invalid.

KS said that "He failed to provide any quote from a scout about Yi." There was a quote from a scout provided about Yi. I'm not saying that makes Yi a bust or star; I'm not saying it's good journalism or not. I'm saying that, uh, there was a quote from a scout provided. That's scientific.
 
KingSpeed said:
Yi scored 22 in a win over the Knicks last night. He's averaging 22.5 ppg since he came back from his injury. In other words, he's basically scoring at the same rate as Brandon Roy.

Garbage? I think not.
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he's played well for 4 games in a row. that's a very good thing for yi. maybe he's actually becoming an nba player.

but it's still hard to argue that he wasn't one of the worst players in the league the past two seasons.
 
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